The Coop
E79829
The Coop is a historic, student-run cooperative bookstore and general store serving the Harvard University community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Coop canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T638629 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Coop Context triple: [Harvard Coop, alternativeName, The Coop]
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A.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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B.
House of Bread
House of Bread is the literal meaning of the name Bethlehem, a historic town in the Levant revered in Jewish and Christian traditions.
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C.
Koop
Koop is a surname most prominently associated with C. Everett Koop, the influential former Surgeon General of the United States.
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D.
The Corner
"The Corner" is a song by Common from his 2005 album "Be," known for its vivid portrayal of urban street life and collaboration with producer Kanye West and spoken-word group The Last Poets.
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E.
The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place is a popular nickname for Oahu, the most populous Hawaiian island and home to the state capital, Honolulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Coop Target entity description: The Coop is a historic, student-run cooperative bookstore and general store serving the Harvard University community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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A.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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B.
House of Bread
House of Bread is the literal meaning of the name Bethlehem, a historic town in the Levant revered in Jewish and Christian traditions.
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C.
Koop
Koop is a surname most prominently associated with C. Everett Koop, the influential former Surgeon General of the United States.
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D.
The Corner
"The Corner" is a song by Common from his 2005 album "Be," known for its vivid portrayal of urban street life and collaboration with producer Kanye West and spoken-word group The Last Poets.
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E.
The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place is a popular nickname for Oahu, the most populous Hawaiian island and home to the state capital, Honolulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookstore
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cooperative ⓘ retail store ⓘ student-run organization ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Harvard Cooperative Society
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surface form:
Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
|
| associatedWith |
Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| city | Cambridge ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| founded | 1882 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Harvard students ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Harvard campus store locations
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MIT campus store ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
member discounts
ⓘ
profit-sharing with members ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
café area in flagship store
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multi-floor flagship bookstore ⓘ student governance participation ⓘ |
| hasMainBuilding | The Coop Harvard Square flagship store ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
alumni
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faculty ⓘ students ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.thecoop.com/ ⓘ |
| industry |
bookselling
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retail ⓘ |
| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| legalForm | cooperative society ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Harvard Square ⓘ |
| location | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| name | The Coop self-link ⓘ |
| offers |
Harvard-branded merchandise
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MIT-branded merchandise ⓘ general books ⓘ general merchandise ⓘ school supplies ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| organizationalStructure | cooperative membership ⓘ |
| serves |
Harvard University community
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology community ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
tourists
ⓘ
university faculty ⓘ university students ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Coop Description of subject: The Coop is a historic, student-run cooperative bookstore and general store serving the Harvard University community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.